Directions

Read an extensive course syllabus that explains what each activity is, how to complete it and how it will help you improve your understanding of directions in English.

Review the objectives of this course and what you can expect to learn in the course activities. You can download our course objectives as a checklist to tick off as you progress through the course.

Watch short videos of different directions to learn the key vocabulary. You can listen to audios of each direction being said out loud by a native British English speaker. You can also download a summary of these directions with the phonetic transcription.

Learn the important questions you need to use to ask for directions or to say you are lost in English. You will learn these questions in our self-paced presentation, which you can download as a PDF document. You can also listen to audios of a native British English teacher reading these questions out loud to hear the correct pronunciation.

Learn some important vocabulary to help provide directions in English using our online flashcards. As well as audios of a native British English speaker saying each word out loud, you'll see the phonetic transcription and images to understand these words. You can easily download a summary of this vocabulary in PDF form.

Read and listen to a series of conversations about giving directions. This collects all the vocabulary and phrases you have learnt so far and puts them into short conversations, so you can see them being used in real life.

Practise writing some directions in English by answering our basic directions questions in our course forum. You'll get feedback and corrections from our native English teachers and get to meet our other course learners from all over the world.

Listen to an audio about a journey to work and answer our listening comprehension questions to test your understanding of directions. Full answers and the transcript are available too.

Look at our Virtually Fluent city map and practise giving directions from point A to point B. We also provide some suggestion answers.

Download and print out our flashcards to play a series of games to practise your new directions vocabulary. We provide full answers and online flashcards too for those who don't want to print.

Read some suggestions about how to incorporate your new directions vocabulary into your everyday life. These suggestions don't require any tools and are simple activities that can help you integrate English into your life. We also provide a forum where you can make more suggestions and read the suggestions of other English learners too.

Review everything you have achieved by completing this course and celebrate your achievements with us!

Take a look at some additional resources we have published online to help you expand your knowledge of the English language.

Take part in our optional course feedback survey to help us improve our course content for future learners and future courses. It'll only take 5 minutes!